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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
" A triad of Deity shines throughout the world , of which a monad is the head . " In successive ages the true purport was misunderstood , but the principle remained , though its application ceased to be made to the true God and Father of all ; and was generally transferred to the three sons of Noah , as a triplication of the mortal father of the human
race . Mr . Maurice traces the idea in the Gentile world to a perversion of Jewish hieroglyphics . He says , " the illuminated heads , the innumerable eyes , and the extended wings of the cherubic beings , which , in the Jewish hieroglyphics , ever accompanied that refulgent symbol , were doubtless
intended to represent the guardian vigilance of the Supreme Providence , as well as the celerity of the motions of that celestial light and spirit which pervades and animates all nature . The innocent and expressive emblem , which devotion had originally formed , was caught up and debased in the pagan world . The fire , light , and spirit which , among
the former were only typical of the Supreme Being , and his attributes , were by them rnistaken for the Supreme Being , and were accordingly venerated in the place of that Being . These three principles became inextricably involved in their theology , and inseparably incorporated in all their systems of philosophy . They called the elementary fire , Ptha , Vulcan , Agnee ; the solar light they denominated
Osiris or Mithra , Surya , Apollo ; and the pervading air , or spirit , Cneph , Mavayen , Zeus , or Jupiter . Under those and other names they paid their divine homage ; and thus , having , by degrees , from some dark ill-understood notions of a real trinity in the Divine Nature , united to that mysterious doctrine their own romantic speculations in the vast
field of physics , they produced a degraded trinity , the sole fabrication of their fancy ; and instead of the God of Nature , nature itself , and the various elements of nature , became the objects of their blind and infatuated devotion . " The principal religious triads in the heathen world were as follows : —The Egyptian , of Trismegistus , or Osiris
—Isis—Orus—and Eicton—Cneph—Phtha ; the Orphic , of Phanes—Uranus—Cronus ; or , according to some authorities , Phos—Boule — Zoe ; the Magian , of the Triplasian Mithras , or Ormisda—Mithra—Ahriman ; the Indian , of Brahma—Vishnu—Siva , and Bah-ama—Subhadra—Jagauath ; the Cabiric , of Axieros — Axiokersa — Axiokersos ; the Phoenician , of Ashtaroth ¦— Milcom—Chemosh ; the Tynan ,
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On Freemasonry. The Number Three.
" A triad of Deity shines throughout the world , of which a monad is the head . " In successive ages the true purport was misunderstood , but the principle remained , though its application ceased to be made to the true God and Father of all ; and was generally transferred to the three sons of Noah , as a triplication of the mortal father of the human
race . Mr . Maurice traces the idea in the Gentile world to a perversion of Jewish hieroglyphics . He says , " the illuminated heads , the innumerable eyes , and the extended wings of the cherubic beings , which , in the Jewish hieroglyphics , ever accompanied that refulgent symbol , were doubtless
intended to represent the guardian vigilance of the Supreme Providence , as well as the celerity of the motions of that celestial light and spirit which pervades and animates all nature . The innocent and expressive emblem , which devotion had originally formed , was caught up and debased in the pagan world . The fire , light , and spirit which , among
the former were only typical of the Supreme Being , and his attributes , were by them rnistaken for the Supreme Being , and were accordingly venerated in the place of that Being . These three principles became inextricably involved in their theology , and inseparably incorporated in all their systems of philosophy . They called the elementary fire , Ptha , Vulcan , Agnee ; the solar light they denominated
Osiris or Mithra , Surya , Apollo ; and the pervading air , or spirit , Cneph , Mavayen , Zeus , or Jupiter . Under those and other names they paid their divine homage ; and thus , having , by degrees , from some dark ill-understood notions of a real trinity in the Divine Nature , united to that mysterious doctrine their own romantic speculations in the vast
field of physics , they produced a degraded trinity , the sole fabrication of their fancy ; and instead of the God of Nature , nature itself , and the various elements of nature , became the objects of their blind and infatuated devotion . " The principal religious triads in the heathen world were as follows : —The Egyptian , of Trismegistus , or Osiris
—Isis—Orus—and Eicton—Cneph—Phtha ; the Orphic , of Phanes—Uranus—Cronus ; or , according to some authorities , Phos—Boule — Zoe ; the Magian , of the Triplasian Mithras , or Ormisda—Mithra—Ahriman ; the Indian , of Brahma—Vishnu—Siva , and Bah-ama—Subhadra—Jagauath ; the Cabiric , of Axieros — Axiokersa — Axiokersos ; the Phoenician , of Ashtaroth ¦— Milcom—Chemosh ; the Tynan ,